FREE STATE
ROUNDING UP REBELS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 8. The Free State, determined tQ end armed resistance, engaged in a big round-up of rebels in the mountains near Blessington, Wicklow, where a large number are hiding. Heavy firing was heard and plater a dozen prisoners were brought into town. CESSATION OF GOVERNMENT HOSTILITIES, APPEAL BY NEUTRAL ASSOCIATION. LONDON, May 9. The Australian Press Association’s special zarrespondent at Dublin reports that the executive of the Neutral Irish Republican Army Members’ Association issued a manifesto calling upon the Free State Government to order immediately a cessation of all executions, arrests, and provocative military activity. The Association, states that it was inspired to make this appeal, by the fact that De Valera's suspension of hostilities had created better feeling throughout the country and the intense desire of the whole people w r as for peace. The Association included a large number of men who fought against the British in Ireland, and it exerted a good deal cf influence throughout the Free State.
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Southland Times, Issue 18937, 10 May 1923, Page 5
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